[rbldnsd] how to make public (DNS)RBL?

[Chris.]

On Thu, 14 May 2009 15:28:45 -0400, Steven Champeon wrote...

> on Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:32:12PM +0000, Chris. wrote:
> 
> <snip a few hundred lines of redundant content>
> 
>> P.S.
>> I've garnered over 1 billion unique IP's in my combined list.
> 
> That seems, um, high.

LOL. Perhaps one should assume that the majority of IP space is
reserved for smptpd's. ;)
Trust me, I see your point. I thought the same when I first started,
and saw all the IP's being added. So I spent a /tremendous/ amount
of time just /sure/ I was going about it incorrectly. Turns out I
was wrong, and it was working better than I thought /it/ or /any/
anti-spam mechanism could. Turns out, after a year of closely
working with it, I can state with all confidence, that it is the
most effective system ever conceived. I'm not bragging here. I had
no conception when I started this, that it would/could be this
effective. But, surprisingly, it is. :)

> 
>> Have written (among other things) an online address
>> verification/removal tool. and a fully automated spam system that
>> returns results faster than a mail server can finish it's request.
> 
> That would be a sort of pre-requisite, I should think.

Yes.

> 
>> Sadly, it appears that no one is interested in reaping the benefits
>> that such a system can provide. Rather, they feel it's better to keep
>> something like this away from other ppl. So that the spammers will
>> have a better chance.
> 
> Thinking like this makes me lean towards the "don't bother" side of my
> recommendations. You're claiming to block a quarter of the
> theoretically possible IPv4 space already, you're talking about
> address verification, which has been pretty much disgraced as an
> "anti-spam" mechanism because it merely shifts abuse from the
> recipient to (usually forged) third party victims, and now you're
> talking like a martyr.

Not sure I completely follow you here. As to the "quarter of the IPv4 space"
Did you imagine that more than 3 quarters of the IPv4 space is in use by
legitimate mail services? Where will all the dynamic IP space come from
for all the ISP/providers?

> 
> So, hey - go martyr yourself.
> 
>> Too bad, looks like I'm the only one whom will benefit from all this
>> work.
> 
> Lord knows you're not the first.

Huh?
Look, I had already been up for 2 days straight when I wrote this -
I alluded to this fact in the beginning of the thread. So I'm afraid
I let my impatience leak out. I have had some rest since then, and
believe my replies will be more thoughtful, as they normally are. :)
Apologies to all for my being so short.

Best wisher.

--Chris

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